Small Changes...Big Difference?

Dear Rachel,

I feel as though I've fallen off track a little bit...but also I feel great. By falling off track, I almost mean literally, I have not been to the gym nor weighed myself in about a week or more...I don't know I haven't been keeping track.

It's because the weather has affected me as well! As the sun is now shining in the evening of the new found spring, I find myself driving right past the dreary gym on my way home from work. I really just don't want to spend time in there...

Instead, I will text a friend to go for a walk and the results are beautiful. I've been to more parks and on more trails this year than I've made it to in the past two years. One had like a million garden snakes...gross...but adventurous at the same time.

It was also getting a little too hot for soup for dinner every night and I still can't bring myself to bring salads for lunch anymore after I did it everyday for a while...bleh so sick of them.

So I guess what I'm saying is only the small changes have really stuck...I still drink mostly water, juices with less sugar or unsweetened ice tea, I still watch my portion sizes more than I used too and eat healthier snacks and I still have substituted many of my regular foods at home with healthier Greek yogurt instead of regular, less sugary cereals, more whole grains...no sweets in the house unless they are homemade that kind of thing.

Like I said I haven't been on the scale so I may be completely delusional...but I feel like I look thinner. I have had like three people say so...so I know it's not a big difference, but still its a difference. My jeans seem to be fitting nicer and I'm not as mad at how my clothes look.

All and all I'm pretty happy right now. Maybe I will be happy with what the scale says if I do make my way back into the dreary gym on a rainy day and maybe I will be happy with the result and maybe not, but for right now it seems as though the small changes have made a difference and this healthy lifestyle isn't for nothing after all.

So yes I would say that small changes over a longer period of time DO make a difference...

See ya later,

Angela